This thread is for sharing your thoughts as you play through Pokémon Legends: Z-A! You can post "spoilers" about new Mega Evolutions but refrain from posting story/lore spoilers.

Curious what Trainer options others went with! This is what I landed on:

Was kind of surprised (annoyed?) that they didn't give you three or four hair options to choose from. Technically, I actually like this hairstyle, but give me choices!!

I agree with you! While I find it lovely that we can choose from tons of different hairstyles during the game, it's sad that we have so few options for hair and clothes at the beginning of our adventure 😕

Btw, I started playing it relatively recently, and I must admit that I love the battle dynamic! While I know that Pokémon has always been turn-based and that many of us love it, I find this way better and more enjoyable. In fact, for the first time in my life, I'm thinking about playing competitively 💥

I have to agree with you both about the missing options to choose a different hair style or even just a different fringe in the character selection screen (and a personal gripe for me, that you can't select eyelashes just for the bottom lid separately, like you can do in SV) 🥲 though it wouldn't be as bad if we were allowed to access the salon sooner.

I always play as the male protagonist, but I also wanted to choose Urbain (in fact, not having him in my initial game was a big reason for restarting before even completing the whole postgame + all side quests) so it was a bit off for me in the beginning because of that. But the complete removal of genderlocked customisation really is a a blessing not just so that I could have Urbain while still being Paxton, but also it's just really nice to have! (I really wished I could've dressed Victor in knit jackets back in SwSh lol)

I don't have screenshots on my computer so copypasting from my bluesky was the quickest I can do right now, and I guess I pretty much didn't yet post anything from earlier in the story there LOL so I hope this works

I may share more thoughts another time too haha

3 hours ago, boyfrillish said:

I always play as the male protagonist, but I also wanted to choose Urbain (in fact, not having him in my initial game was a big reason for restarting before even completing the whole postgame + all side quests) so it was a bit off for me in the beginning because of that.

I didn't know you could choose your rival's gender! In fact, I thought Taunie was present in every game, but I realised only after 30 hours of gaming that people could have also Urbain 😆

1 hour ago, Teo said:

I didn't know you could choose your rival's gender! In fact, I thought Taunie was present in every game, but I realised only after 30 hours of gaming that people could have also Urbain 😆

I think I've seen others who didn't realise the rivals were genderlocked XD choose wasn't maybe the right word to use in my initial post haha

I was disappointed that you can't actually "choose" them, only by deciding which player character you play as. I immediately loved Urbain's design when the protagonists and rivals were revealed and knew he was lining right up with my other favourite rivals personality wise and, well, I am also a shipper at heart 😅 but the freerange customisation really makes up for it since it lets you style the female protagonist to look like the male (like I did) and vice versa

On 12/24/2025 at 5:05 PM, boyfrillish said:

I think I've seen others who didn't realise the rivals were genderlocked XD choose wasn't maybe the right word to use in my initial post haha

Oh, sorry, it was my fault, because I realised only now that you get Taunie if you choose a male protagonist, and you get Urbain if you choose a female protagonist 😯